Alternatives presents a special feature comparison of the current employment arbitration rules from four major dispute resolution providers. When using the rules, best practice is to check the latest versions for the exact current wording in the comparison categories, available at the organizations' websites listed at the top of the chart.
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Last month, the author examined U.S. judicial interpretations of primary and secondary jurisdiction considerations under the New York Convention and its U.S. enabling statute, the Federal Arbitration Act's Chapter 2, with respect to awards issued in international arbitrations. In this month's conclusion, the focus is on the effects of the laws on jurisdiction and venue over actions and proceedings falling under the Convention. See “The New York Convention: How Courts Interpret Jurisdiction on Awards—A U.S. Perspective,” 42 Alternatives 9 (January 2024) (available at https://bit.ly/3RXb3tO).
{"title":"More New York Convention: U.S. Court Interpretations On Jurisdiction and Venue for Actions and Proceedings","authors":"Tong Wang","doi":"10.1002/alt.22029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22029","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Last month, the author examined U.S. judicial interpretations of primary and secondary jurisdiction considerations under the New York Convention and its U.S. enabling statute, the Federal Arbitration Act's Chapter 2, with respect to awards issued in international arbitrations. In this month's conclusion, the focus is on the effects of the laws on jurisdiction and venue over actions and proceedings falling under the Convention. See “The New York Convention: How Courts Interpret Jurisdiction on Awards—A U.S. Perspective,” 42 <i>Alternatives</i> 9 (January 2024) (available at https://bit.ly/3RXb3tO).</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"42 2","pages":"1-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139643882","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Next Month: CPR's 2024 Annual Meeting","authors":"Russ Bleemer","doi":"10.1002/alt.22030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"42 2","pages":"18-36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139643883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.
只要社会是建立在不公正的基础上,法律的功能就是捍卫不公正。法律越不公正,就越显得值得尊敬。
{"title":"Mediation and Law, Justice and Injustice","authors":"Kenneth Cloke","doi":"10.1002/alt.22024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>So long as society is founded on injustice, the function of the laws will be to defend injustice. And the more unjust they are the more respectable they will seem.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"42 1","pages":"1-16"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139047605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
In Part 1 of 2, London Alternatives columnist Adam Samuel looks at typical family fights that affect family businesses—power imbalances, bad family lawyering, and all manner of bequeathment disputes. Still to come: preventing and resolving the warfare over the family business proper—which is big business for neutrals, litigators, and courts world-wide.
{"title":"The Family Row, Defined and (Sometimes Resolved)","authors":"Adam Samuel","doi":"10.1002/alt.22026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22026","url":null,"abstract":"<p><i>In Part 1 of 2, London</i> Alternatives <i>columnist Adam Samuel looks at typical family fights that affect family businesses—power imbalances, bad family lawyering, and all manner of bequeathment disputes. Still to come: preventing and resolving the warfare over the family business proper—which is big business for neutrals, litigators, and courts world-wide.</i></p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"42 1","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139047607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
There has been a significant body of U.S. federal case law where jurisdictional issues concerning the 1958 Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards have been litigated in the U.S. This article focuses on federal courts' interpretation on certain—not all—of those jurisdictional issues in connection with the Federal Arbitration Act—state law and state courts are out of the scope of this article.
{"title":"The New York Convention: How Courts Interpret Jurisdiction on Awards—A U.S. Perspective","authors":"Tong Wang","doi":"10.1002/alt.22028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There has been a significant body of U.S. federal case law where jurisdictional issues concerning the 1958 Convention on Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards have been litigated in the U.S. This article focuses on federal courts' interpretation on certain—not all—of those jurisdictional issues in connection with the Federal Arbitration Act—state law and state courts are out of the scope of this article.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"42 1","pages":"9-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139047608","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Alternatives on the Move","authors":"Russ Bleemer","doi":"10.1002/alt.22025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"42 1","pages":"2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139047606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A long-running battle over a decade-old arbitration award that, with interest, has soared to more than $11 billion against the Nigeria government appears to be nearing its end in dramatic style: The United Kingdom's High Court of Justice confirmed the reversal of the arbitration award.
{"title":"A Big Win in a Long Case: U.K.'s High Court Overturns an Arbitration Award Valued at $11 Billion","authors":"Adaeze Mgbeahuru","doi":"10.1002/alt.22027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A long-running battle over a decade-old arbitration award that, with interest, has soared to more than $11 billion against the Nigeria government appears to be nearing its end in dramatic style: The United Kingdom's High Court of Justice confirmed the reversal of the arbitration award.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"42 1","pages":"5-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139047491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On Page 167 inside, Alternatives presents a special full-issue feature comparison of the current rules from five major administrative bodies in the international arbitration field. When using the rules, best practice is to check the latest versions for the exact current wording in the comparison categories, available at the organizations' websites listed at the top of the chart.
{"title":"An Exclusive Comparison of Selected, Current International Arbitration Rules","authors":"Russ Bleemer","doi":"10.1002/alt.22022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>On Page 167 inside, <i>Alternatives</i> presents a special full-issue feature comparison of the current rules from five major administrative bodies in the international arbitration field. When using the rules, best practice is to check the latest versions for the exact current wording in the comparison categories, available at the organizations' websites listed at the top of the chart.</p>","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"41 11","pages":"165-180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138449396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Register in December for CPR's 2024 Annual Meeting in Philadelphia","authors":"Russ Bleemer","doi":"10.1002/alt.22023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/alt.22023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100074,"journal":{"name":"Alternatives to the High Cost of Litigation","volume":"41 11","pages":"166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138449397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}